caelatura
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Searchable Lemmata: caelatura (L).
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Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Furnishing;
canopy; an altar canopy, tester or canopy over a bed.(circa 1395 - ante 1450)
1. [1] ... unum lectum cum textura de glauco cum avibus de blodio ... [3] ... lectus rubius ... , caelatura rubia et iij curtine rubie pro eadem.
Wills.
[DMLBS Test. Ebor. (III 1-3) 1395]
2. onera ... ornamentorum ... parochiani ... supportabunt, ... fenestris vitreis in cancello et caelatura super majus altare dumtaxat exceptis
Ecclesiastic/Regula, Historic.
[DMLBS Conc. Syn. (1006) 1287]
3. [226] ... tria vexilla, viz. domini imperatoris Romani, S. Edwardi, et S. Edmundi, cum aliis xliij diversorum regum, ducum, atque comitum, et totidem penisellis ... [229] ... frontellum ... cum frontilecto et uno reredos attingente usque ad caelaturam ... altaris (Invent. Westm.)
Accounts.
[DMLBS Arch. (LII 226-229) 1388]
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Speculative, Probably from Late Latin caelum 'a canopy', perhaps related to caelum 'sky'.
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